Re: [PATCH 5/6] FDPIC: Add coredump capability for the ELF-FDPIC binfmt [try #3]

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On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:54:36 +0100
David Howells <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > +#define roundup(x, y)  ((((x) + ((y) - 1)) / (y)) * (y))
> > 
> > The GFS2 tree has 
> > 
> > ...
> > +#define DIV_ROUND_UP(n,d) (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d))
> 
> They aren't exactly equivalent.

OK.

I count 45 different implementations of this in the tree.  Ho hum.

> In any case, we probably shouldn't be using divide, but should rather be using
> shifts since the divisors are powers of two.  I wonder if the compiler will
> make the substitution...
> 

It usually manages to.  iirc, less successfully if signed quantities are
used.
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